Workload: 30 h lecture (course attendance) 15 h exercise (course attendance) 45 h exercise (self-organized studies) 30 h lecture (revision) Learning outcome: Knowledge The students will be introduced into the domain of smart materials. Skills The students will understand the correlation between composition, microstructure and properties of smart and multiferroic materials. Competences Students will get a compendium over smart materials for understanding new approaches to materials sciences problems. The students will have learned scientific purchase as well as bulk fabrication rules.